Ammonius is a bowl-shaped lunar impact crater with a slightly raised rim. It is located on the floor of the walled-plain Ptolemaeus, about 30 kilometers northeast of the crater mid-point. In the past this crater was identified as 'Ptolemaeus A', before being named by the IAU.
Just to the north on the lava-flooded floor of Ptolemaeus crater is a relatively prominent "ghost" crater: the discernable buried rim of a pre-existing crater. The diameter of this ghost crater is nearly double that of Ammonius, and is currently identified as Ptolemaeus B.
